No subliminal messaging there, just some pun fun. Michael Moore’s movie, Capitalism, A Love Story, is premiering in theaters everywhere tomorrow. Naomi Klein interviewed him for The Nation, and one exchange struck me.
NK: All right. Let’s talk about the film some more. I saw you on Leno, and I was struck that one of his [...]
Posts Tagged ‘class’
Moore on Moore
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, class, Economic Crisis on September 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“Class War”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged class, Economic Crisis, Healthcare, Marxian on September 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
No, not talking about Notre Dame this time (although there does appear to be a war for the classrooms). [End hyperbole]. This article is the latest from Rick Wolff in MRZine, in which he argues that capitalists have been engaging in a class war since the 1970s (and have been pretty successful):
Across the same 30-year period, [...]
Michael Novak on the Ethics of Capitalism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged class, inequality, Poverty on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Speaking 2 weeks ago at the Chautauqua Institution, Michael Novak hold forth on the Ethics of Capitalism in a Friedman-esque fashion. Of course, he doesn’t come off as nearly that intelligent, at least not in the FORA.tv editor’s selected highlight clip, in which he talks about the rich-poor gap in response to a question from [...]
